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The History of Onagawa
In Onagawa, people in the city actually fled to the nuclear power plant as a place of refuge. It was spared by the tsunamis. In the 1960s, he fought to build that power plant farther back from the coast at higher elevation and with a higher seawall. He knew the story of his hometown shrine, which had flooded in the year 869 after a tsunami.
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